2025 Didn’t Break Founders. It Exposed Them.
Why 2026 Will Reward Only the Real Ones 2025 wasn’t a bad year for founders. It was an honest one. There were no freebies. No “growth at any cost.” No spray-and-pray funding rounds. The market didn’t crash—but it stopped pretending. Capital became choosy. Customers became smarter. Vanity metrics stopped impressing...